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Example sentences for "ae"

Lexicographically close words:
adynamic; adytum; adzackly; adze; adzes; aedes; aedibus; aedile; aediles; aedileship
  1. Flora Cammil's in the kirk the day," and the precentor looked at Carmichael with expectation.

  2. The bit that affeckit me maist wes the text frae the Prodigal Son--it cam in sae natural.

  3. Ye get a rive at the Covenants ae meenute, and a mouthfu' o' justification the next.

  4. Our men were not bigoted abstainers, but I never heard any word so coarse and elementary as intoxicated used in Drumtochty.

  5. I doot it's somethin' wrang with Geordie," and Whinnie started on a new track.

  6. And Ludovic Gordon bowed low over Marget's worn hand as if she had been a queen.

  7. But nothing of that sort happened in my time; we kept ourselves well in hand.

  8. There were no specialists in Drumtochty, so this man had to do everything as best he could, and as quickly.

  9. I daursay, I daursay,' he said thoughtfully.

  10. It was a terrible disappointment to Rob, his mind bein' bent on becomin' a great leeterary genius, but he's been michty guid to the bairn.

  11. What made ye think o' speirin' her, Sam'l?

  12. I got but ae look of his bonnie blue ee, but ae; ae look.

  13. Her round neck is whiter Than winter when snowing; Her meek voice is milder Than Ae in its flowing; The glad ground yields music Where she goes by the river; One kind glance would charm me For ever and ever.

  14. Dry-lipped she stands an' casts her glance afar, Ae hand across her brows to shield her een, Her horn flung careless on the tapmost scaur, Where names deep chiselled in the rocks are seen.

  15. They canna hang me, and for less I carena.

  16. Between him and God rose the rude bulk of a castle of stone!

  17. But when they were shown BEN to the parlour, Cosmo was struck with nothing less than astonishment: the walls from floor to ceiling were covered with books.

  18. The laird put his hand on his son's knee, as, when a boy, Cosmo used to put his on his father's.

  19. But this was enough to wake in the boy the desire, and it grew in him as he grew, to rescue what was left of the estate from its burdens, and restore it to independence and so to honour.

  20. It was the dead of the night, but every remnant of childhood's awe was gone in the excitement of the hoped discovery.

  21. But the door had not opened, and how he came in seemed inexplicable.

  22. By one's own one learns to love all God's creatures, and from one's own one gets strength to meet the misprision of the world.

  23. The few pictures on the walls looked perishing with cold and changelessness.

  24. The fact was, ever since that talk with the master about Linty, he could not bear to kill anything, and was now and then haunted by the dying eyes of the pigeon he shot the first time he handled a gun.

  25. For the last time he lighted his candle, and there was just enough of it left to show him how the chain was fastened.

  26. Long they could not go on as now, and he was ready to do whatever was required of him, only he wished God would make it plain.

  27. A tramp of hoofs upon the beaten course, Then came a sight that made the bravest quail: A phantom Friar on a spectre horse, Dragged by a creature decked with horns and tail.

  28. To Latin matins and their soul's salvation, And thought their own wild whoopings were less dreary Than Father Pedro's droning miserere.

  29. For there is an ale-house here hard by, And it shall not cost thee ae penny.

  30. Wi' baith your feet upon ae side; Sae weel ye're harneist, and sae trig, In troth ye sit like ony bride!

  31. The first ae guide that they met wi', It was high up in Hardhaughswire; The second guide that they met wi', It was laigh down in Borthwick water.

  32. For here is but ae innocent fule, And there are thirty Armstrangs and three!

  33. Following World War II, Korea was split with the northern half coming under Soviet-sponsored Communist domination.

  34. At the sight of so much majesty, the magician was not only dazzled, but was so amazed that, after she had prostrated herself before the throne, she could not open her lips to thank the Fairy as she proposed.

  35. None knew better than the great Scottish novelist how to work on his readers' feelings; and hence his success.

  36. The edifice scarcely seemed to be the abode of man.

  37. It reappeared, but suddenly vanished on hearing the cock crow.

  38. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.

  39. How long elapsed we are not informed; but on a certain night, just after the clock had struck twelve, Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus were engaged in earnest conversation when they were alarmed.

  40. We maun get another subsidy frae the Commons, and that will make ae compting of it.

  41. But I will enlarge on this farther as we pass along, gin ye list to bid your twa lazy loons of porters there lift up your little kist between them, whilk ae true Scotsman might carry under his arm.

  42. I wrote to Mrs Forbes twa or three times, but I got but ae scrimpit answer.

  43. The serpent turned oot an ill cooncellor upon ae occasion ower well to be remembert by Adam's race.

  44. We hae mair than ae instance i' the Scriptur o' a haill community sufferin' for the sin o' ane.

  45. But there's ae thing mair I wad put ye up till.

  46. For ae thing, there's the guilt o' Adam's first sin, ye ken.

  47. She took her denner aff o' ane o' my hips, ae day last year.

  48. At length the latter said: "Alec, I'll bide wi' ye till the neist session upon ae condition.

  49. But jist ae thing mair, Mr Turnbull, and syne I'll haud my tongue," resumed Thomas.

  50. A moudiwarp (mole) wi' ae ee wad see that afore he had winkit twice.

  51. This bed he now offered me to use, saying he supposed I would set up to be gentry.

  52. I should say that from her chamber window, and not three feet away, such is the straitness of that close, it was possible to look into a barred loophole lighting the stairway of the opposite house.

  53. They'll be all arranged to take us, that's true.

  54. It was Alban they called it when our forefathers will be fighting for it against Rome and Alexander; and it is called so still in your own tongue that you forget.

  55. Or is it to be the other way, and are they to bring ye in with James?

  56. The more reason there should be one decent man in such a land of thieves!

  57. Under the lee of Fidra there is a good anchorage in westerly winds, and there, from a far way off, we could see the Thistle riding.

  58. At the sight the truth came in upon me in a clap.

  59. In the course of two hours or so, more and more ragged Highlandmen kept collecting, Neil among the first, until the party must have numbered near a score.

  60. To perform these several businesses, as well as to protect the geese from poachers, Andie had frequent occasion to sleep and pass days together on the crag; and we found the man at home there like a farmer in his steading.

  61. His morals were of a more doubtful colour.

  62. Dinna raise ae Buckskin, Mr. Rawlinson," said a man in corduroy.

  63. I hae na seen ye're bonny face these muckle years, sir, sync ye cam' back frae ae sight o' the young mistress.

  64. Dour an' din he was, wi' ae girn like th' auld hornie.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aerial navigation; aerial perspective; aerial warfare; aesthetic emotion; aesthetic experience; aesthetic pleasure; aesthetic value